Re: Help in setting Hadoop on multiple servers

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:33:20 -0800 

howard chen wrote:

java.io.IOException: NameNode not formatted:
/home/projects/tmp/hadoop-web/dfs/name/image
       at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.<init>(FSImage.java:60)
       at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSDirectory.<init>(FSDirectory.java:316)
       at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:229)
       at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:142)
       at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:134)
       at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:582)

any more hints? thanks...


Try creating that directory before you format:

  mkdir /home/projects/tmp/hadoop-web/dfs/name/image
  bin/hadoop namenode -format

This was a bug that was recently fixed.

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-682

Doug

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